f" (final battle) during 1944 and 1945. At the end of the Thousand Year Reich, Hitler was concerned only with the struggle over life or death of the German people: "It is our duty to inform all weaklings that this is a question of to be or not to be" (44), "A fight for freedom had begun, and this time not the fate of Serbia or Austria was involved, but whether the German nation was to be or not to be" (161), "For me it was not that Austria was fighting for some Serbian satisfaction, but that Germany was fighting for her existence, the German nation for to be or not to be, for freedom and future" (162), "Just as the Republic today can dissolve parties, this method should have been used at that time, with more reason. For to be or not to be of a whole nation was at stake" (169-170), "When the nations of this planet fight for existence - when the question of destiny, 'to be or not to be,' cries out for a solution - then all considerations of humanitarianism or aesthetics crumble into nothingness (177), and "... the whole attention of a people must be focused and concentrated on this one question [the sin against blood and race], as though to be or not to be depended on its solution" (249).Hitler had a special liking for the classical proverb "Mens sana in corpore sano", which appears in Mein Kampf three times in its German translation of "Ein gesunder Geist in einem gesunden Krper" (A healthy mind in a healthy body). As the following example will show, even this proverb was rather perversely put into the service of Hitler's racist plans. The way he makes use of this classical health ideal can only be described as absurd. In the first part of the book Hitler writes, "Above all, in our present education a balance must be created between mental instruction and physical training. The institution that is called a Gymnasium today is a mockery of the Greek model. In our educational system it has been utterly forgotten that in the long run a heal...
